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mort96today at 9:22 AM2 repliesview on HN

I agree. I always customize the blue color on my terminal because dark blue on black is completely unreadable to me (and I'm not even color blind!). For some reason, every single terminal emulator defaults to a blue that's unreadable on a black background (I think typically #00f).

If a tool overrides my color settings, it too usually picks a dark blue that's unreadable on my black background.


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kevin_thibedeautoday at 12:34 PM

Most of them are emulating the EGA/VGA palette which was a regression from the CGA terminal colors.

https://int10h.org/blog/2022/06/ibm-5153-color-true-cga-pale...

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jvetoday at 1:37 PM

Is there a human that can read that dark blue on black or is it just us who has their eyes wired differently?

I have to select that text to change the background to read it.

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